ONLINE OFFER AND BID MANAGEMENT WITH SEALED BIDS

Patent №

US 8,103,574

Granted

2012-01-24

Filed 2000

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

+1 more

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09726009

A computer system for a manufacturer or service provider to communicate goods or services which are available for bidding by bidders that provides collected bids in a bid database, the bids each having an associated seal status indication field queries the bid database for unsealed bids which match parameters of a Broker Profile Matrix associated with a trader console, the trader console comprising an intermediary third party user console communicably disposed between a bidder user console and broker user console, operates to buy products or services from the broker user console and to resell the bought products and services to the bidder user console; responsive to finding matching unsealed bids, delivers the matching unsealed bids to the trader console wherein delivery of delivery of sealed bids to the trader console is prevented; and displays on the trader console the delivered matching unsealed bids to a trader console user.

AI classification

Planning0.89
Machine learning0.02
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 113440644

EBAY INC.

assignment · 295130885

Assignors

WIESEHUEGEL, LELAND JAMES, ROBERT, REBECCA LYNN, MORRISON, WILLIAM JAMES

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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